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Ideas & Debates

Carrying the Torch: Revolutionary Marxism in the Neoliberal Era

A leader of the Partido de Trabajadores Socialistas (PTS) talks about the theoretical and strategic basis for the actions of the PTS in the struggle for worker control at Zanon.

Christian Castillo

July 14, 2017

Clara Zetkin: A Great Organizer of Socialists, Women Workers

A brief history of the life of socialist revolutionary, Clara Zetkin.

Andrea D'Atri

July 12, 2017

Socialism’s Future Can’t Be Its Failures

Bhaskar Sunkara's recent New York Times piece is a dangerous misremembering of socialist history that tries to make socialism safe for liberals. To avoid repeating the failures of the 20th century, we have to take an honest look at our own defeats.

Evan McLaughlin

July 6, 2017

The Oath: The Story of the Jewish Bund

In the early twentieth century, the largest socialist organization in Russia was the Jewish Bund, numbering tens of thousands, who were willing to fight, arms in hand, for the liberation of Jews. While the Bund fostered the national identity and dignity of Russian Jews, they were also committed Marxists, who viewed Jewish emancipation as intimately linked to a worldwide socialist revolution.

Doug Enaa Greene

July 3, 2017

Towards a New Phase in the Global Scenario

Although Trump has not been able to push forward key aspect of his program, he still demonstrates a significant change in global politics.

Who’s Afraid of the Anthropocene?

Reports of severe weather events and the dwindling of endangered species, in the shadow of world politics, have conjured a recent, now popular neologism – the Anthropocene.

Bee Vang

July 2, 2017

A Resistance Movement for the Planet – Full Interview

Climate change is out of control. It is already too late to avoid soaring temperatures, scarce water, and extreme weather. But the financial structure of capitalism is tied to fossil fuels. Market-based solutions are ineffectual. John Bellamy Foster, a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon and the editor of Monthly Review, speaks about the kind of program necessary to stop this catastrophe.

Why Socialists Have Always Fought for Open Borders

In what President Trump has hailed as a "clear victory", the Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for a limited version of Trump's de facto travel ban on Muslims.

Nathaniel Flakin

June 27, 2017

Venezuela: The Pope, Trump, and the Bourgeois Press United Against Maduro

The bourgeois press is reporting on the ongoing crisis in Venezuela from the point of view of the neoliberal opposition. Behind the smoke screen of "democracy", they are fighting for a new cycle of imperialist subjugation.

Robert Samstag

June 14, 2017